AllupInyourBiz

Being a person who has accidentally and otherwise started over with the Itunes library, on multiple occasions, I could not be happier about Apple’s decision to drop the DRM. If you have ever synced an Ipod to a new computer or library, you have probably seen the prompt, asking you if you would like to transfer your purchased songs. If you indicate the affirmative, then you have to put in your user information, hope that you haven’t already put the music on more than the allowed number of computers, etc. This is all because of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) that Apple has been so Nazi-like about embedding into Itunes purchases. Apple announced Tuesday that they will no longer be using DRM to control the use of millions of titles available on Itunes. Apple announced that by the end of the year, the entire Itunes catalogue should be free of DRM.

I will admit that this year, as in the 2004-2005 season, my ire toward the BCS system is heavily biased because my team is the one getting screwed, again. Anyone who watched the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, or this Year’s Sugar Bowl, knows what I’m talking about. What is with the mentality that the SEC and Pac-10 are the only real conferences in College Football? Just because in other conferences, people have interests outside of college football, does not mean that the schools cannot produce a quality football team. This post could be a voluminous discourse about how bad the BCS system sucks. I won’t beat a dead horse stating the obvious. But the inadequacy of the BCS system is more than evident in years like this one. It is pretty apparent this year, that the voters got it wrong. Honestly, who thought that it would be a good idea to have a system where the “national champion” is crowned based on votes, rather than record, and strength of schedule? What a joke. It isn’t very hard to assume that Barry Switzer’s ignorant statements during the Sugar Bowl’s Pre-game show represent the sentiments of a large cross section of the voters (primarily those who hail from the south). For those who didn’t catch it. Switzer claimed that the best player on Utah’s team would not have even qualified as an Alabama recruit. I guess we can just assume that Switzer was referring to the fact that the best players on Utah’s team don’t have a taste for possum, and like to use toilets that flush, over outhouses. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how the final rankings turn out. Unfortunately, it will be determined by bias and speculation, since it is pretty clear that the best two teams are not the ones playing for the NCAA “championship.”